It’s very easy for a person in any given profession to forget that those outside that profession, or who don’t deal with members of that profession on a regular basis, may not know anything about some aspects which we take for granted. Lately, a few readers have made comments to me on Twitter which have alerted me to the fact that many of you may not realize that most escorts, myself included, have a “social rate”, a lower hourly rate which applies to dates in which there won’t be any hanky-panky. In my case it’s $200, half of my “full service” rate; if you just want to take me out to dinner and talk, or pick my brain about a project you’re working on, or have me model nude for you, or anything like that, the social rate applies rather than the full rate. Best of all, it’s completely legal! So if you just want to meet me but you’re not comfortable with paying for sex yourself, email me and tell me you’d like a “social date”. I won’t usually travel for those, so I’m afraid you’ll have to be in Seattle or wait until I visit your area. However, if that’s not going to happen for you in the foreseeable future, there’s another option: phone or Google hangouts. If you want sexy stuff, the social rate applies; however, if you honestly just want to have a nice long video or phone chat with me, the rate is even less: $100 per hour. I know, it may seem a bit strange to pay just to talk to a strange woman on the phone, but you’d be surprised how many guys who call phone sex lines are really just lonely & looking for conversation with a woman. The more virulent prohibitionists love to pretend that sex worker rights activists make money from our activism, but that’s one of the most absurd of their many ridiculous lies; not only do we not make money from our activism, we only rarely break even. And if you consider that time is money, every activist operates at a net loss all the time. So what I’m really offering you here is another way to support my work and get something for yourself in return; over the next few months I’ll be coming up with several more ways for you to do that. I’m not a nonprofit corporation, so I’m afraid it isn’t tax deductible; however, it’s a very real contribution to my work, and I figure many of you who read this blog regularly would like to do that. You don’t even need references, and for the phone date you needn’t even leave your house, so why wait? Email for your date today, and support important work in the process!
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Exit, stage left! – Snagglepuss
Every so often Pandora gives me a gift by introducing me to a delight I didn’t know existed, and a few days ago this one popped up on my Beatles station (yes, I have a Beatles Pandora station; shut up). It’s the title track from Ringo’s most recent (March 2015) studio album, Postcards from Paradise, and its lyrics largely consist of the titles of Beatles songs. If you’re not a Beatles fan you probably won’t like it, but I am so I do. Yes, I’m old; I know it’s easy to forget that since I look hotter than any two chicks half my age. Anyhow, the links above it are from Jesse Walker, Tim Cushing, Mistress Matisse, Tim Cushing again, Popehat, Elizabeth N. Brown, and Ricardo Cortés, in that order.
- Hardly a “reinvention”.
- Talk about shit for brains…
- The best satire adheres closely to truth.
- So much for that whole omnipotence thing.
- Don’t even THINK of going into their headquarters.
- You didn’t think this would stop in Louisiana, did you?
- Being locked in a cage like a wild animal isn’t dehumanizing enough.
From the Archives
- Prohibitionists soon won’t be able to claim their crap is based on anything more than a political agenda.
- Pretending that pigs, bureaucrats & other busybodies know more about our profession than we do.
- In Sweden, underage boys are claimed to have more sexual agency than adult women of any age.
- Translation: They provide passage & forged papers for migrants who want to escape Nigeria.
- Can’t prove a charge? Just add another in mid-trial that you don’t actually have to prove.
- I think we can safely close the lid on the coffin of the “gypsy whores” myth.
- The word for “partnering” between government & corporations is “fascism”.
- This isn’t actually the reason I dislike cowgirl, but it makes a good excuse.
- One of the most ridiculous examples of anti-whore theatrics I’ve seen yet.
- Huge gentrification project disguised as “rescuing” women from sex work.
- Even cops whose offenses are less than rape employ disgusting defenses.
- A glimmer of sanity in the mad world of “child pornography” prosecution.
- What were the makers of the 50 Shades of Grey movie trying to achieve?
- My ex-girlfriend may be doing sex work. Should I do something about it?
- New Orleans prosecutors love putting whores on “sex offender” registry.
- Until prohibition is banned, any decriminalization is a temporary respite.
- There’s no such thing as “sexualization”; the problem is “Puritanization”.
- More distribution of soap bars to fight “pimps” hiding in hotel lavatories.
- Prostitution charges are such a convenient bludgeon against minorities.
- It’s nobody’s business to say which reasons for having sex are “wrong”.
- Reviewer too deeply soaked in prohibitionism to write a proper review.
- “Gypsy whores” idiocy & police puffery, followed by a sharp right turn.
- The badge-licking in this is so loud and fellatory, it may nauseate you.
- The hilarious idea that selling sex is a “new” way to pay for schooling.
- Cops, cereal, BDSM, ads, animals, hysteria, anal inspections & more.
- “Sex trafficking” hysteria, like rotting fruit, pollutes its surroundings.
- Christian fundamentalists try to “rescue” whores by annoying them.
- Reporting on the deaths of transwomen often adds insult to injury.
- “5 Things You Don’t Know About Strippers (Until You Are One)“.
- Can a sexually & economically unconventional relationship last?
- A cop wanking fantasy inspired by arrest of two petty thieves.
- A couple of “trafficking bowl” debunkings that both quote me.
- Fundamentalist preacher discusses his homoerotic fantasies.
- “A Guide to Respectful Reporting and Writing on Sex Work“.
- Lux Alptraum on financial discrimination vs sex businesses.
- King County prosecutor Dan Satterberg says I’m a “victim”.
- “Fighting sex trafficking” by standing on lawns is so passé.
- What century do “sex trafficking” fetishists believe this is?
- The remarkable dishonesty of laws “regulating” sex work.
- They just can’t let go of that “sex trafficking” carcass yet.
- This is the typical “Super Bowl sex trafficking” story now.
- Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
- Vice is back to spreading “sex trafficking” myths again.
- A bill in New Hampshire would decriminalize sex work.
- Cops, churches, incompetence, wizards & much more.
- In the US, the victim would’ve been arrested as well.
- Laura Lee talks about how she became a sex worker.
- Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
- Moron who claims porn increases whores’ business.
- “The showboat du jour for preening politicians“.
- Cops, violence, stupidity, cake and much more.
- Another rare Irish denunciation of prohibition.
- This picture of me would be illegal in Victoria.
- A reporter’s touching, childlike faith in cops.
- In which I open up the throttle on harlotry.
- Final preparations for my move to Seattle.
- Butterfly mourns the death of Tammy Le.
- The horrible Project ROSE may be kaput.
- How many times do we need to say this?
- First trans sex worker murder of 2016.
- A retreat from Operation Choke Point?
- The truth about Mexico’s “pimp town”.
- My two previous columns for Imbolc.
- Damn, has this girl got chutzpah!
- Journalists are starting to listen.
- What could possibly go wrong?
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
- A selection of “Lilli” cartoons.
- Belle Knox on libertarianism.
- Cows cause “sex trafficking”!
- Much more of this, please.
- Damned filthy amateurs.
- Rapist cop of the week.
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So what if…women…are doing this…of their own free will? – Rachel Moran
Porn isn’t sex education, but Pornhub supports it:
Porn is often blamed for miseducating people about sex…[and] members of the adult industry often counter that porn is simply entertainment and shouldn’t be expected to teach the public about the birds and the bees — but now Pornhub, one of the world’s most popular tube sites, has decided to get in the game of sex education. On Wednesday, the site launched its new Sexual Wellness Center, an online sex-ed hub run by Dr. Laurie Betito…It has information about everything from the female reproductive system to sexually transmitted infections to testicular cancer. Betito will answer reader questions about love and romance…“[W]e wanted to provide our fans with a trusted educational platform they can utilize as their go-to resource for information and advice when it comes to sex,” said Corey Price, Pornhub’s vice president…
While the prohibitionists continue to scream their filthy fantasies at the top of their lungs, thoughtful people are quietly coming to realize how truly awful anti-sex laws actually are:
To better control their working conditions, sex workers need the removal of punitive sex work laws, rights to security, and to be regarded as authorities in what does and does not improve their lives…Even though sex work was legalized in Hungary in 1999, sex workers continue to face mistreatment by police and other authorities…sex workers are routinely and arbitrarily fined, arrested, and detained under vague laws. Sex workers are also regularly targeted for administrative fines on unsubstantiated grounds, such as littering or violating pedestrian or traffic regulations, in order to meet police quotas…As a result of regulations that are impossible to comply with for the majority of sex workers…a significant proportion of sex work continues to takes place illegally, even though sex work is officially legal…In a 2011 survey…more than 10 percent of the 246 respondents had been [raped] by…police…and 43.4 percent…had experienced verbal or physical assault by authorities…
Another of those cases whose reported details don’t add up:
Marcel RaAnthony Richard…is charged with human trafficking and compelling prostitution. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison…The teen, who is not being named because she is the victim of an alleged sex crime, has a history of using suggestive screen names and chatting online about sex with older men…The teen’s testimony…was peppered with “I do not recall” and “I do not know.” She was often unclear about dates, times and events…She testified Richard had posted classified ads on Backpages.com [sic]. The ads…included…photos of a woman that was clearly not the teen…she [also] testified that she was high when she first talked with police and…[some things she said then weren’t] true…police were unable to find any specific locations [she described] nor could they locate any of the other people that the teen said she came in contact with [while supposedly being pimped by Richard]…
Huge sums of money given to cops to inflict violence on adults for consensual sex is, alas, not news these days. But the NYPD is being given a new list of “sex trafficking signs” that describe a very large segment of the population:
New York City…[is creating] a dedicated hotline that will allow [people to rat sex workers out to the cops]…the Vice Unit has been restructured, including the addition of 25 more detectives who will [actively hunt sex workers full-time and]…placing a greater emphasis on pimps and johns…Some of the warning signs people may exhibit are:
- Signs of physical and/or sexual abuse
- Lack of memory of recent events
- Limited freedom of movement
- Being unpaid or paid very little
- Having limited access to medical care
- Seeming to be in debt to someone
- Working excessively long or unusual hours
- Having high security measures in the work and/or living locations
- Showing signs of fear, anxiety, depression, tension, or paranoia
- Avoiding eye contact
- Having a strong fear of authorities
- Appearing malnourished or showing signs of repeated chemical exposure
- Having numerous inconsistencies in his/her story…
Most of the US population is “in debt to someone”, and most women, minorities & young people will show signs of “strong fear” of pigs who are harassing & questioning them about personal matters, including so-called “inconsistencies” due to the disorienting tactics cops intentionally use during interrogation.
A profile of the woman who set up a home for retired sex workers in Mexico City:
After years of working the streets of Mexico City, Carmen Munoz wondered what happened to sex workers like her when they got old – so…for the next 13 years she lobbied the city authorities to provide a retirement home for elderly and homeless sex workers. With the support of several well-known artists, neighbours from the Merced and fellow sex workers, she finally persuaded them. The city gave them a large 18th Century building, just a few blocks from Plaza Loreto…It took a lot of work to clean up the building, a former boxing museum, but in 2006 the first women moved in. They named the shelter Casa Xochiquetzal, after the Aztec goddess of women’s beauty and sexual power…
A federal lawsuit brought by a Cincinnati woman against several guards and medical staff from the Warren County Jail [states that she]…was held at the jail in May 2013, after turning herself in on a four-year-old warrant for deception to obtain drugs…the jail’s nurses refused to give the woman her prescribed medicine for her epilepsy, causing her to experience seizures and withdrawal, leaving her debilitated in her jail cell…her jailers [then] Tased her, [stripped] her…turned off her running water and forced her to drink out of the toilet…[they then] held…[her] facedown…[and] at least two [pigs]…climbed on her and raped her…and…orthopedic surgeon said bone shattered on her shoulder was caused by blunt-force trauma consistent with sexual assault and would later have to be surgically treated…six days into her sentence, the woman was sent to the hospital by her tormentors, where doctors found sperm in her urine…one of the defendant nurses, Krys Lambert…said that the inmate was “playing” them, and even refused to give her medications after the jail doctor prescribed them…the guards covered the windows with black garbage bags to conceal the assault…
Sex workers reaching out to the public via art:
Sex workers…are celebrated in We’re Still Working: The Art of Sex Work, a stellar exhibition at SOMArts Cultural Center [in San Francisco], on view through Feb. 25…Comprising pieces created by artists who, in one fashion or another, identify as sex workers, We’re Still Working presents an array of experiences in an industry condemned by the majority of Americans as immoral and threatening to public health and safety. To counter assumptions and harmful stereotypes about who sex workers are personally and professionally, co-curators Maxine Holloway and Javier Luis Hurtado selected the work of artists who deploy a heady mix of humor, anger and sarcasm in their respective practices, all in defiance of society’s judgement…
Something Rotten in Sweden (#662)
San Diego ramps up its anti-whore pogroms:
More than 400 people were arrested in a three-day statewide sweep aimed at [harassing & impoverishing sex workers]…”Operation Reclaim and Rebuild” also resulted in the [arrest] of 28 [underage sex workers] and 27 women…142 male suspects were arrested on suspicion of solicitation, 238 suspects on suspicion of prostitution and 36 male suspects on suspicion of pimping…”This operation sends a clear message to those who would pay for sex in San Diego County,” [vomited out] Chief Deputy District Attorney Summer Stephan…
Finding What Isn’t There (#672)
Reports of domestic human trafficking continued to increase in 2016…according to…the Polaris Project…Almost three-quarters of the calls were made in regards to [fantasized] sex trafficking [despite the fact that it’s only a small fraction of] labor trafficking…
More on the useful idiots who are trying to destroy the internet:
Lawsuits in New York and California are attacking an important tool protecting online free speech by alleging the interactive computer services…promote terrorism…Without Section 230 protections, innovators would not create online public forums for fear they would be held liable for terrorist attacks or every comment made on their websites…courts have repeatedly dismissed the actions citing Section 230, and rejecting allegations that social media companies provide material support. At least one of the cases filed against Twitter has been dismissed twice. The others are similarly unlikely to succeed…
We’re seeing more editorials critical of the War on Whores:
Whenever a liberal feminist politician talks to a socially conservative politician, no doubt they’re conspiring to harass sex work. This truism revealed itself again as Sen. Dianne Feinstein…told…Jeff Sessions during his confirmation hearing that “human sex trafficking was the second largest criminal activity in the United States.” Human trafficking costs are estimated at $9 billion a year…Since the drug trade is worth $100 billion, and Medicare fraud is estimated at $60 billion, Feinstein’s estimate was not in the same league, never mind ballpark. She also repeated the debunked untruth that the “average age” of trafficking victims was 12-14 years. How many six-year-olds do you see strutting on Fourth Street? A Department of Justice study released in June 2016 concluded there could be as few as 4,500 underage youth in the sex trade, and only 15 percent had pimps. Feinstein’s fake statistics fuel the growth of sex trafficking laws that punish actual adult working women and their clients to satisfy politicians’ lust for power…
As glad as I am to see this story getting wider press, the use of minimizers like “some” or “not all” to mean “the vast majority” really grates on my nerves, as does the ignorant assertion that sex work is illegal in most countries (totally false, though most do have laws which allow cops to persecute us). Bonus: white women like Rachel Moran and Ashley Judd coming to India to negate the voices of tens of thousands of women as “a tiny minority”. Note Judd’s incompetent parroting of Gloria Steinem’s moronic comments about “body invasion”, which makes it sound as though she shares arch-lunatic Sheila Jeffreys’ belief that intercourse is “unnatural”.
It’s good to see at least a few judges recognizing these fantasies as such:
A mother accused of trafficking a Nigerian woman into the country and forcing her into prostitution has been acquitted after several inconsistencies emerged in the alleged victim’s evidence. The complainant had previously told a jury she underwent a “voodoo process” in her home country during which she swore she would not report the alleged trafficker, Joy Imasogie…the alleged victim told the jury that she had stopped working as a prostitute in 2008…However…evidence…showed that the woman continued to work as a prostitute after this date…The woman told [bureaucrats] she was still working as a prostitute and that she advertised her services on the internet. She also said she didn’t want help to leave that way of life. The judge also noted that the alleged victim was found in the same house as the accused’s husband and €14,000 in cash on a date after she said she fell out with Ms Imasogie…
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Hi there, boys and girls! It’s time for another anti-whore article so thoroughly and pervasively offensive that I couldn’t bear to just print a short quote and be done. Today’s example is from the prohibitionist, cop-worshipping Los Angeles Times, and was written by one James Queally (Hi James! I hope you enjoy all the tweets and emails I’m asking everyone who reads this to beseige you with, so you learn to consult sex workers next time you’re assigned to do a hit piece on us). But without further ado, let’s look at this slab of rancid tripe:
Night after night, a small group of students and professors from California State University Northridge traveled to Van Nuys last year for an unorthodox mission. In packs of two or four, they searched for young women standing on dark street corners along Sepulveda Boulevard, then waited for the men who would inevitably come calling on them. For eight months, the students and instructors followed the johns and the women they sought sex from along a stretch of the boulevard that officials consider one of the busiest prostitution strolls in Los Angeles.
“Packs” is the right word; these so-called academics actually stalked and spied on other citizens, attempting to catch them in the “crime” of having consensual sex. This could only be more dehumanizing if they shot them with tranquilizer darts and attached radio tags to their ears. If their victims were anyone other than sex workers and clients, these Stasi wannabes could be arrested and charged under stalking laws.
The Cal State group documented the places they met and where they had sex in an attempt to help police and city officials stamp out a decades-old problem…
Were Cal State a private entity, this would be an example of fascism, the marriage of corporate, political & paramilitary (such as police) power. But the fact that Cal State is a public university renders this merely creepy and unethical rather than fascistic; I’m not sure what ethical constraints “urban studies” professors operate under, but if it’s typical of social sciences this is an egregious violation of the consent of the experimental subjects.
…Based on the academic research, Councilwoman Nury Martinez said…she has launched a $780,000 program aimed at eliminating locations where johns and young women, many of whom she [fantasizes] are forced into prostitution under threat of violence…The…study identified up to 40 locations used for illegal sex that could be safeguarded by the addition of street lamps or the trimming of nearby trees…“It has to do with line of sight,” [oinked] Chief [pig] Bob Green…“When people feel like they can hide in the shadows to commit prostitution or take something from your car or steal your car, they’re gonna do it”…
I love the juxtaposition of rhetoric here; these lying sacks of shit will say whatever they think will play best with the audience, but didn’t bother to coordinate their stories. On the one hand, the politician is trying to sell this police-state BS with the typical masturbatory fantasy of teen sex slaves, while the pig prefers the old “whore as criminal” trope and equates a peaceful, consensual transaction with theft (even to the point of vomiting out the moronic phrase “commit prostitution”, which I suggest you compare with “commit teaching”, “commit accounting” or “commit policing”). Neither the reporter nor his editor seemed to be uncomfortable with the horrific phrase “illegal sex”, which only 14 years ago would have included a lot of homosexual activity and within my lifetime included interracial sex. The lack of self-awareness is almost mind-boggling.
…The project is the latest step in a years-long initiative to curb human trafficking and prostitution along Sepulveda Boulevard, Martinez said. The [politician and the pig] came together to spearhead the creation of an anti-trafficking task force in the San Fernando Valley in 2015, a unit that arrested nearly 400 johns last year…Prostitution has been a problem in the area for decades…the sight of women waiting on street corners along Sepulveda was common as far back as the 1980s. But in recent years, Martinez said she has noticed a troubling trend. The corners are now populated by girls, rather than women. “The last couple of years, the age of the women who they traffic on this corridor has gotten younger and younger and younger” she said…The victims, she said, are trafficked to Los Angeles from other major cities, including Las Vegas and Seattle…
Note the conflation of sex work with coercion, an equation only possible in the prudish & misogynistic minds of sex prohibitionists like Martinez, who wants us to believe that she actually pays such close attention to streetwalkers and has such superhuman memory and mathematical skills that she can catalog the apparent ages of women she has seen in a certain area over a stretch of three decades, average them, then plot those averages on a mental graph to note that they are growing younger. Clearly, her superior mutant mind is wasted in politics; imagine what she could’ve accomplished as a physicist or meteorologist. Alternate theory suggested by application of Occam’s Razor: Of course they look younger to the old bat than they used to; twenty-something women seemed old to her when she was a schoolgirl, and now they seem like kids. But in either case, she has to represent the sex workers as passive, doll-like victims, “trafficked” (in dog crates loaded on pallets in tractor-trailers, no doubt) by ninja “pimps” with mind-control powers. Methinks she’s been living too close to Hollywood for too long.
…Henrik Minassians, an associate professor of urban studies and planning at CSUN who led the study, said anyone trying to have sex with an underage girl would have little trouble doing so along the Van Nuys stretch…[his “evidence” is that he claims one of the women he was stalking said to him] “She can bring you underage girls”…before pointing to another woman. At least 10 trafficking victims have been rescued from the area, according to LAPD records. Five of them were just 15 years old, said Lt. Marc Evans, who [presented no evidence for the claim]…
This is what passes for “evidence” in this voyeuristic safari masquerading as science: the claim of one woman against another (who was apparently not interviewed), which could have been motivated by anything from the hope she’d be rewarded for telling these asses what they wanted to hear, to the hope of getting an enemy arrested for pimping. That, and the sexual fantasies of a pig who claims to have found five 15-year-olds but no girls of 14, 16 or 17. The McNeill Rule points toward what “Lieutenant” Evans’ favorite fetish is.
…Martinez hopes the changes will…discourage pimps who are trafficking young women in her district…Minassians said the purpose of the study was to eradicate conditions favorable to…pimps and johns…The use of environmental manipulation to disrupt illicit activity has worked well for other police agencies. When trying to find a way to combat lewd conduct and public sex in recent years, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department began using similar tactics, namely trimming trees and improving lighting, to [attempt to create a panopticon]…
Let’s conclude with the rotten heart of this loathsome screed: the treatment of sex work as a disease to be eliminated. I mean, look at the language; it sounds like they’re talking about draining a bog to get rid of mosquitoes. This is what “government” and “policing” actually mean in this country: treating human beings as animals to be managed, corralled, studied, punished and harvested (for taxes and fines), instead of citizens who have just as much right to be in public places as anyone else. The idea that it doesn’t actually hurt anyone for others to have sex in a dark place outdoors never even occurs to these Puritans; the idea that someone might be doing something where they can’t watch offends them and, apparently, frustrates their voyeuristic impulses.
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny | Tagged agency denial, California, cops, dehumanization, ethics, hysteria, language, Out of Their Tree, prohibitionist myths, streetwalkers, surveillance, yellow journalism | 21 Comments »
May the reawakening of the world bring with it the reawakening of good things you thought gone forever. Blessed Be!
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The only thing [cops]…do is…sweep everyone up in antiprostitution policing, and then somehow assert that this is being done in the name of combating human trafficking. – Kate Mogulescu
Neither Addiction Nor Epidemic
A married doctor who romped with an escort in hospital can treat patients again – after claiming cycling has helped him quit his sex addiction. Father-of-two Dr Rupert Pemsel…had sex with the prostitute…But when she blackmailed him for £10,000 he came clean to the General Medical Council (GMC) and last March was suspended for “deplorable and morally reprehensible” misconduct. Now he has been given the green light by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service to retrain as a family GP after claiming he has turned his life around…
The UK media has a bizarre fondness for kindergarten words like “romp” and for obsessing about whether someone in a news story has spawned or not. But the idea that doctors fucking whores is even remotely out of the ordinary is hilarious; when I was working in New Orleans, probably 20% of my income came from MDs. Still, the main story here is the way privileged men use “sex addiction” as an excuse when they get caught, a fact not lost on the Ozzman:
Ozzy Osbourne has backtracked on claims he was suffering from sex addiction, which he made in the aftermath of an affair last year…“I’m in a fucking rock band, aren’t I?…There have always been groupies. I just got caught, didn’t I?…I don’t think I’m a fucking sex addict”…
You’re absolutely right, Ozzy, because there is no such fucking thing as a sex addict. As my friend Brooke Magnanti once put it, he might as well have claimed he was Father Christmas.
Australian police practice “NHI” as well:
…During the 1980s and 1990s, the Australian authorities now say, gangs of teenagers in Sydney hunted gay men for sport, sometimes forcing them off the cliffs to their deaths. But the police, many of whom had a reputation for hostility toward gay men, often carried out perfunctory investigations that overlooked the possibility of homicide…Now the police in New South Wales…are reviewing the deaths of 88 men between 1976 and 2000 to determine whether they should be classified as anti-gay hate crimes…
Here’s an interesting article on regulated brothels in 19th-century St. Petersburg. As in France and Italy, sex workers were confined to specific brothels in an attempt to control them, and as in the US the writer clings doggedly to the myth that laws and cops were in place to “help” us, and just can’t imagine why so many women refused to submit to this “protection”.
Have you noticed we’ve heard almost nothing about “Super Bowl sex trafficking” this year? Even Sports Illustrated, not exactly known for hard-hitting investigatie journalism, is calling it a debunked myth and quoting those who oppose it (though, alas, no sex workers):
…The Global Alliance Against Traffic In Women makes the case that by focusing on the sex trade, authorities are taking resources that could be used to investigate [actual crimes]…there are signs that the Super Bowl Sex-Trafficking Myth might be splintering. Minal Davis, the special adviser to the [Houston] mayor on human trafficking, believes that the “sensationalistic” approach at previous Super Bowls “hurts the messaging” and minimizes the severity…
I’m honestly surprised the “forced sex trafficking abortions” trope didn’t catch on:
Any woman seeking an abortion in South Dakota would have to be given the name and telephone number of an [anti-sex worker] organization…under a measure introduced…[by] Dan Kaiser…[who pretends] the idea is…an educational measure that might help get women out of dangerous and violent situations…
Quite Possibly the Most Uptight Nerd Ever (#563)
A new app…aims to make it easier and safer for sex workers to meet their clients…While sex work is legal in some Australian states, there are a number of risks for both parties. Rendevu hopes to solve that problem. Developer Reuben Coppa said sex workers could list themselves on the application list, show when they were working, what type of appointments they were taking and their price points…Both clients and escorts can write and read reviews about their experience. The app also tracks location and requires credit card details…[to] guarantee the amount of the booking…So far, traffic on the app has been high but the number of bookings has been fewer than expected — there have been about 100 since the launch…
…in the densely populated Greater Toronto Area…girls are recruited at school by young males and taken to local motels or condominiums, where they engage in sex work. Most continue to live at home…[prohibitionist] Katarina MacLeod [parrots,] “You have these guys making regular girls feel special, buying them things and taking them shopping…[The men] know exactly how to build dependence…Girls as young as 13 are getting recruited in”…
The law is an ass, and so is this judge:
Claims that First Lady Melania Trump worked as a high-end…escort before she married businessman, billionaire and now President Donald Trump will be argued over in a Maryland court…[after] a Montgomery County judge ruled that Melania Trump’s $150 million defamation lawsuit against a Clarksburg blogger will continue to trial, saying the blog posts implied she acted as a prostitute…”The court believes most people, when they hear the words ‘high-end escort’ that describes a prostitute. There could be no more defamatory statement than to call a woman a prostitute”…
Fuck you. Judge Sharon Burrell; there are far worse things a woman can be than a prostitute, such as a hypocritical and prudish politician.
Alas, Seattle “officials” think harm reduction principles only apply to drug use:
Officials in Seattle…approved the nation’s first “safe-injection” sites for users of heroin and other illegal drugs, calling the move a drastic but necessary response to an epidemic of addiction that is claiming tens of thousands of lives each year. The sites — which offer addicts clean needles, medical supervision and quick access to drugs that reverse the effects of an overdose — have long been popular in Europe. Now, with the U.S. death toll rising, the idea is gaining traction in a number of American cities, including Boston, New York City and Ithaca, N.Y. While [prohibitionists] say the sites promote illegal drug use, supporters say they can keep people alive and steer them toward treatment…
Here’s a constantly-updated spreadsheet of sex worker advertising sites; I can’t speak for its contents, but the more resources for sex workers impacted by the censorship of Backpage, the better.
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny | Tagged abortion, advertising, agency denial, Australia, Canada, cell phones, drugs, harm reduction, hysteria, Monsters, Most Uptight Nerd Ever, Neither Addiction nor Epidemic, O Canada!, politicians, prohibitionist myths, psychology, screening, South Dakota, sporting events, Stupor Bowl, The Crumbling Dam, The More the Better, The War Goes On, Washington (state), Worse Than I Thought | 6 Comments »
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I explained on Thursday, my trip got more difficult after I left northern New Mexico on Tuesday. But I made it home safely (if exhausted) Wednesday night and hit the ground running on Thursday; I’ve had a full calendar since then, which is a very good thing even if it did slow my writing catch-up. But I’m back to three columns ahead, and by this time next week I hope to have it back to five. I’ve also received Chester Brown’s art for the cover of The Forms of Things Unknown and as soon as it’s colored and the blurbs are in place, I’ll be ready to compile the book and start the proofing process. Another thing I received by post recently was this lovely red dress from my Amazon wishlist, courtesy of a reader named Michael; if you send me another one (there are several on the list) I’ll post the pictures in an upcoming diary. Oh, and if you prefer to give me money in exchange for services, I should probably point out that Lorelei Rivers and I are doing a two-librarian special for the entire month of February. If you’re in a position to take advantage of that, email me for details; we promise you an unforgettable experience!
Posted in Diary | Tagged blogging, Presents, The Forms of Things Unknown | 1 Comment »
Lately I’ve found that I’m doing some of my best writing on Twitter, but since it’s an ephemeral medium I’m going to start reposting especially good tweet threads here. On Saturday, while we were watching the mass protests against Trump’s executive order preventing people from a number of predominantly-Muslim countries from entering the US even if they had green cards, I tweeted the following; the second paragraph was tweeted later in response to people who kept erroneously referring to the protests, and the actions of lawyers rushing out to help detainees pro bono, as “democracy” when in fact it was (the republican form of) democracy that created and empowered the very system which these people were fighting. 
If I were the sort of person who found comfort in being right, I’d be very smug now that millions are waking up to the danger of giving more than a tiny amount of power to “leaders”. But since I’m NOT that kind of person, I’m just shaking my head. I’m not a seer or a brilliant analyst of mob psychology; I just understand that ALL humans are too flawed to be given power over others except in very limited circumstances & subject to revocation of that power by EACH individual subject to it. In other words, no person is morally bound to obey “authorities” merely because he or she happens to be physically located within imaginary lines on a map which those “authorities” claim belong to them. Donald Trump’s moral authority, or the moral authority of ANY politician, is exactly as legitimate as the moral authority of a tiger pissing on trees to mark its territory. In other words, one should be mindful that there’s a dangerous and irrational animal in the area which believes it has the “right” to do anything it wants to those within that territory, but that animal’s behavior doesn’t represent “justice” or a “social contract” or “divine right” or anything else but the predictable behavior of a violent animal with no understanding of what right & wrong actually mean. “Authorities”, like tigers, are best avoided unless they’re locked up in cages where they can’t maim others due to some whim, urge or emotion. What they are NOT to be given is any kind of obedience or deference except what’s minimally necessary to get away safely if one happens to run into one. And the same cautions apply whether it’s a Bengal tiger or a Siberian one, whether it has white, black or orange coloring behind the stripes, whether it’s male or female, or whether it’s actually a lion, leopard or jaguar instead of a tiger. And replacing one tiger with another one won’t change anything except what that particular individual tiger might be most enraged by.
Individuals acting toward some shared goal, without a formal structure enforced by violence, is not “democracy”; it’s anarchy. Grasp that. Those who think “anarchy” is evil need to look at these protests & lawyers voluntarily helping immigrants. THAT IS ANARCHY. So the next time some ass tells you about how we “need” government to prevent anarchy, remember these protests; the truth is, we need anarchy to protect us from government.
Posted in Philosophy, Tyranny | Tagged ethics, law, lawyers, politicians | 9 Comments »
I like to see people dressed when they’re in public. – Tom Weathersby
I don’t generally like these “Top Ten” video things, but I wanted to honor the passing of John Hurt, possibly one of the most underrated actors of our time, by reminding you of his many top-notch performances. The links above the video were contributed by Brooke Magnanti (“steakification”), Tim Cushing (“easy” and “first”), Emma Evans (“paging”), Lucy Steigerwald (“police”), and Carol Fenton (“counseling”).
- Steakification.
- R.I.P. John Hurt.
- It’s just too easy.
- Paging The Doctor.
- Not a police state, no sirree.
- I propose fines & psychological counseling for politicians.
- The first was the only one left, so it was just a matter of time.
From the Archives
- An overblown, sensationalized interview with retired madam Jami Rodman.
- Only very rare “perfect victims” are helped by so-called “safe harbor” laws.
- Moron calls act banned a century ago “one of the oldest crimes in history“.
- A thorough report on the incredible amount of money in “anti-trafficking”.
- Bollywood is pretty sex work-friendly even if the Indian government isn’t.
- Bureaucrat imagines he can stop people from seeing porn he doesn’t like.
- Why the GSS and similar surveys are absolutely useless on sexual topics.
- Another demonstration of how regulation of sex work hurts sex workers.
- Guess what cops do when they get their hands on information like this.
- All prohibitionists are liars, but Irish ones may be the most egregious.
- Mistress Matisse’s style guide for journalists writing about sex work.
- There are actually several of these “anti-trafficking” trucker groups.
- Ruchira Gupta wants women like me banned from ever having sex.
- Now will the cops stop pretending this woman was “sex trafficked”?
- If he had simply paid to enact this fantasy, he’d still have a career.
- Last time I checked, 18 is still legally adult in every part of the US.
- Most parroting of “gypsy whores” myth now contains a disclaimer.
- Dysphemisms and gawking abound in UK articles about sex work.
- Noah Berlatsky on Swanee Hunt’s HackTrafficking4Good scheme.
- US op-ed condemns Canada’s awful new anti-sex worker regime.
- Landlady railroaded for allowing whores to work on her property.
- The “misogyny” explanation for police brutality is pure bullshit.
- “How Laws Regulating Sex Work Ignore Workers Themselves”.
- The quaint non-“law enforcement” term for this is “blackmail”.
- Swanee Hunt tricks young people into aiding the police state.
- Politician tries to advance surveillance state via magic words.
- Loathsome porn performer tries to pretend she isn’t a whore.
- Would stopping masturbation help with my sexual problems?
- Cops, lawyers, bureaucracy, music, babies and lesbian nuns.
- One wonders how Ms Jannese thinks we even pay the rent.
- Cops, laws, math, masturbation, Star Wars & much more.
- This is the typical “Super Bowl sex trafficking” story now.
- This licensing law was sold as a way to “protect” women.
- How much longer can this absurd melodrama continue?
- Great news! There is no actual crime in Pennsylvania.
- Lunatic murders whore due to sadfeelz about his dick.
- “9 Things I Learned in My First Year as a Sex Worker“
- Yet another ridiculous “sex trafficking” fakumentary.
- Unfortunately, she learned what cops are really like.
- Penthouse is not shutting down its print magazine.
- Here’s what “regulated” sex work really looks like.
- Repeatedly refuting this bullshit gets exhausting.
- Washington state politicians silence sex workers.
- What is the truth about Asian massage parlors?
- Monica Jones’ conviction overturned on appeal.
- Vincent Rue is the Melissa Farley of abortion.
- “Sex trafficking” is caused by commercials!
- A boom in “lovers” spying on one another.
- Noah Berlatsky on underage sex workers.
- An anti-porn propaganda film from 1962.
- Sex prohibition never stops with whores.
- Man who robbed sex worker imprisoned.
- Packing for Seattle & a new bathing suit.
- A “stalemate” over mandatory condoms.
- One of the most vile rapist cops of all.
- January 2012 and 2013 in retrospect.
- Lots of interviews and a lovely party.
- Rapist “court officer” of the week.
- Fellow librarians: this is bullshit.
- Britain’s campaign against sex.
- The Whores’ Cant of Istanbul.
- Do-it-yourself surveillance.
- Introducing the vajankle.
- My tits turn sweet 16.
- Betty White nude.
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny | Tagged censorship, cops, Indiana, internet, Louisiana, Mississippi, politicians, video | 2 Comments »
[Jessica] McGraa’s death has prompted many to ask how we have created a climate in which sex workers call anyone but the police. – Frankie Mullin
Melissa Ditmore on Russia’s terrible anti-whore policies:
Russian President Vladimir Putin…half [joked]…that…Russian sex workers are “of course the best in the world”…but…Russia’s regressive policies on sex work, LGBTQ people, and sex education are counter to good health. LGBTQ people are stigmatized and discriminated against and face grave violence, sex work is prohibited, the most effective HIV prevention strategies for people who use drugs are against the law, and comprehensive sexuality education is not offered in schools…
Liz Brown was the only non-prohibitionist invited to appear on this Al Jazeera show; in this article she discusses the incredible ignorance of the other panelists, who call for more laws without even knowing what the current ones say.
The National Network of Sex Workers has released a statement challenging the conference being organised by the “The Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution International”…The statement has been signed by over 2000 sex workers in India who reject the conflation of trafficking with sex work, and the conflation of sex work with violence. It calls for…an end to the use of morality to stigmatise and discriminate against sex workers…
The broadest “gypsy whore” claim ever:
…a new report from 2016 [redefines criteria to claim that] the number of human trafficking cases in [Florida] doubled in the last year…Florida’s reputation as a tourist destination means traffickers respond to the demand for sex tourism by trafficking victims to the state during tourist season…[prohibitionist] Bethany Gilot [publicly fantasized about]…the prevalence of sex tourism in the region…
…Donald Trump signed [an] executive order…reinstating a ban on international aid…to nonprofits that provide abortions or promote information on them, regardless of what other services they offer…A…group of more than 100 public health, women’s issues, and civil liberties organizations have already issued a statement opposing the return of…”the global gag rule”…[the policy is very much like] the anti-prostitution pledge…[which] stipulated that no grant money could be used…to “provide assistance to any group or organization that does not have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution”…
I’m not sure which aspect of this is the stupidest:
A woman accused of trafficking a Nigerian woman into the country and forcing her to work as a prostitute has claimed that the alleged victim was having an affair with her husband…The complainant previously told a jury that she underwent a “voodoo process” in Nigeria during which she swore she would not report the alleged trafficker, Joy Imasogie…once in Ireland she had to have sex with up to 10 men a day to pay off a €50,000 “debt”…arising from her being brought to Ireland…Imasogie said sometimes the woman would come to her house to do her hair in exchange for food but denied making her work as a prostitute…she…also claimed the mother of the alleged victim was using voodoo to take her husband away from her but “did not succeed”…
A 26-year-old Detroit man…[shot] a transgender woman in the face after paying her for sex. Jason Lamar Hogan was charged…with [attempted murder]…She escaped and got treatment at Grace Hospital…
The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay is urging you to drop an F-bomb. No, not the swear word. In this case, F stands for Friend…They’re using memes with a very serious message. It’s something we don’t like to think is happening in our community: kids forced to be sex slaves. But Florida is one of the top three states for human trafficking…Ken Gibson from the Crisis Center…says…“It’s little kids…who are being targeted by pimps”…
There was no dancing when deputies and code enforcement officers were at a strip joint called Icon. Except for the 20 or so officials, the club was nearly vacant…But the deputies didn’t mind the empty stage, as they were there to ensure that the club was in compliance with a new county ordinance requiring anti-human trafficking signs in adult entertainment establishments…
The nauseating sound of bootlicking is deafening.
…University of Louisville…director of basketball operations Andre McGee hired strippers and prostitutes as a way of gaining favor with high school recruits from 2010 to 2014. The scandal broke wide open in 2015, when Katina Powell, who was in charge of organizing the women to bring to campus, published a book detailing the racket, titled Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen…
Jessica…McGraa’s death sent waves of horror through the sex work community across the UK. As an independent worker, advertising online, she was part of one of the fastest-growing sectors of the industry. Her story was close to home for thousands of people working in similar circumstances. How many of them would have called the police?…
Evan Cramer…pulled [a woman] over…for a minor traffic violation…[he said] she had multiple warrants out for her arrest and said she could avoid jail time if she [submitted to rape]…Cramer…then…[forced] the [woman] into his cruiser and [drove] her to a vacant lot where…he [raped her]…The woman then went to the hospital and reported the [rape]…
A Tale That Grew in the Telling (#705)
Though this is mostly just the usual idiocy, note that “children” is defined as “people under 26”.
There are likely more than 313,000 victims of labor and sex trafficking in Texas, and roughly a fourth of them are children and people under the age of 26 who have been forced into prostitution…[fetishists] from…University of Texas…[pretend these wild exagerrations represent] “a conservative understatement of the prevalence of human trafficking in Texas”…
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny | Tagged A Tale That Grew in the Telling, abortion, An Example to the West, bogus studies, Broken Record, Checklist, cops, Florida, hysteria, I Swear To God, India, infidelity, Ireland, law, Lying Down With Dogs, Michigan, Monsters, Paint By Numbers, Perquisites, prohibitionist myths, rape, Russia, streetwalkers, stripping, Surplus Women, Texas, That Old Black Magic, The Mote and the Beam, To Molest and Rape, transgender, United Kingdom, video, violence vs. sex workers, witchcraft | 1 Comment »
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